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They are currently €1300 new from CVP, ProAV, WEX etc so it depends on how many accessories you've got with it but one thing in your favour is that no one seems to have any in stock. So if someone wants one then they will currently have to be looking at a used one so your €1100 is not unreasonable. Another thing in your favour if you are just looking to swap it out for an EOS-R price wise is that the price of those second hand will likely get a cheaper tomorrow as people chop them in for the new models. So even if you get less for the Pocket4K, you'll be paying less for the EOS-R.

Indeed.

You can actually use micro four thirds lenses on them too. Not necessarily that useful for native electronic lenses from Panasonic and Olympus but a lot of 3rd party mft mount lenses like Meike cover APS-C . Also useful for not having to buy two PL adapters in my case.

Whether it was down to Nikon themselves, Atomos, the patent lawyers or all three, the delay in getting the ProResRAW functionality from announcement to actually being deployed has really set them back with the Z series. Then having to return the camera for a £200 hardware modification was adding insult to injury really. If they could have released it at the time of the announcement, it would really have given the Z cameras a massive boost as there wouldn't have been anything out there at that time to compete with it but it just lost all momentum the longer it went on. And of course by the time they finally did get it out, the world had moved on a bit and its just gone stale and it might be a long way back. I obviously have a ton of Nikon gear stretching back over decades of using them so I should've been the person to buy a Z6 or a Z7 but I've never really been that close to getting the credit card out for one. They don't need a complete change of direction but they could shake things up by diverging and making a small full frame cinema camera, particularly as the Z mount is very adaptable physically and electronically. They won't do it of course.

1) Are they going to make a new DVX200 based on the GH5 internals ? 2) Are they going to make an L mount EVA1 ? 3) Have they had a refund from the market research company for that new vlogging camera ?

Don't worry, The Washington Post are on the case.

As I say, the shot in the lift is a very, very extreme example. The effects will vary greatly depending on the frequency of the light and the shutter speed so its not a constant. Looking at the exif of the lift shot, it is 1/1000th of a second, which will exacerbate it greatly and the type of light is an unknown variable. I'll do a couple with just a regular vanilla LED video light as well so you'll know not every day is a yellow and green band day with this camera! More tomorrow....

By which I mean at least 10 hours as something has just cropped up and I'll do it tomorrow.

To be fair, the lift example really is as extreme as its going to get so don't take that as an indicator of its general performance every time it sees an LED light. I have a Philips Hue light strip which is usually kryptonite for electronic shutters so give me 10 minutes and I'll come back with something.

Its fair to say the electronic shutter doesn't always fair brilliantly. This train was only pulling away from the platform rather than speeding through it and the distortion is obviously, erm, "somewhat" apparent. The bigger concern you might have in your application though is with LED stage lighting as the banding can be pretty horrendous as this quick snap of a sign in a lift shows. Suffice to say, there were no yellow and green stripes on the printed page !

I certainly don't think that an 800mm lens of any sort, even a diminutive size as this one appears to be is, the sort of thing you carry in your bag on the off chance. If you need that sort of reach for your subject matter then you'll have spent some time preparing and setting up for shooting it whether its bird watching, wildlife or sport so you really do have to mean it. Logically, you'd say that on that basis you'd be prepared to take the hit weight/size wise of a faster lens to make sure that effort wouldn't be undermined but that doesn't mean there won't be a big market for it. Who knows, there might even be an entirely new market for it as people have never really had a pocketable 800mm lens before so it might usher in a new era of extreme long range street photography.

What these have on their side is that they look really compact, or at least can travel compact due to the push/pull design. If they are really cheap then they might be worth a look but I think they'd have to be sub £400 cheap, which I doubt they will be. Intriguing though as I can't imagine Canon putting these out unless it could perform so they could be surprisingly good. Or more likely surprisingly adequate.

On the face of it, that 800mm f11 lens is a weird move as its more akin to one of those £50 ebay jobs but it is weird enough to make me curious. I still think f11 is going to be a drawback from a subject separation point of view though, even with it being 800mm. I shot a lot of sport with the Sigma 300-800mm f5.6 before it attempted to kill me at Le Mans and even at f5.6 the extra reach was often offset by the lack of separation. Shutterdial lets you search Flickr based on exif so if you look at examples of 800mm shots at f11 on this link https://www.shutterdial.com/#/search?s=Any&f=800&a=15 And then compare them to shots at 800mm at f5.6 on this link https://www.shutterdial.com/#/search?s=Any&f=800&a=11 You can see how, whilst its not impossible to get decent separation, you need to be a lot more careful with your backgrounds, which may not always be possible.

Hahaha....don't worry, with the scripting possibilities that it offers there is the potential for some ridiculous levels of titting about ! Yes, it also transfers the .RAF format. Just tested it on an X-T2 for speed and it takes about 5 seconds to get it across. Thats the beauty of these cards really in that you don't have to deal with the cumbersome and sometimes restrictive wifi functions of the cameras themselves and the vagaries of the different apps. You can also set them up in the app to automatically copy the jpeg only, the RAW only or both as soon as you've taken them. There is also the option to not automatically transfer any so that you can do it selectively from the app.

No idea, I've been pimping them on here for years !

Yes, the files remain on the card until you delete them.

Yeah, I had a couple of EyeFi cards of different generations and when they worked they were pretty good, if a little slow, but they just weren't reliable enough. Not just the range or interference either but they would often just refuse to work at all. The FlashAir cards are in a different league but mud sticks and the EyeFi cards did the concept of the wifi card absolutely no favours whatsoever.

Yeah, it just shows up as its own network and the phone will auto connect when it detects it again. There is absolutely zero titting about ! There are a bunch of ways you can set it up with scripts to do things so you don't necessarily need to use the app. I used them in the D500 and D810 when shooting games to auto ftp images straight out of the camera to the agency site for someone else to live remote edit. I had the same facility in the D3/D4 cameras via the expensive bolt on transmitters but the only one that worked with the D500 and D810 is the £1000 WT-7 so this was a far more budget alternative !

That is conceptually (minus the Bluetooth) how the FlashAir card works. You switch the camera on, it creates a wifi network which your phone automatically attaches to (or it can connect to your phone if preferred), you take the shots , it transfers them to the phone automatically in the background and they appear on the phone in a folder exactly as if they were taken with the phone. The big upside against all of the native wifi transfer functions built into cameras is that you can carry on shooting while its transferring previous files and that gives the same workflow as the pro Nikon and Canon DSLRs with their dedicated, and expensive, add on network modules. The other big upside is that it works the same on every camera you put it in so you don't have to wrestle with different interfaces on the cameras and a bunch of different apps on the phone for each camera type you are using. In terms of transfer speed, as an example, it gets a 7.5mb jpeg from my fp onto my phone and ready to be edited or shared on social media or whatever about 5 seconds after pressing the shutter with RAWs obviously taking proportionately longer. As its all done automatically and hands-free then it is integrated enough and fast enough for my needs to be as seamless as having the phone built into the camera or the camera built into the phone, whichever way round you want to look at it ! The restriction for some, though. may come in terms of the card read/write speed itself which is 90/70MB/s. Its plenty for stills of course and a lot of flavours of video as well but might not cut it for some formats.

For the billionth time on here, I'm going to pimp the Toshiba FlashAir SD cards as the solution for the travelling/photo sharing situation. It can be wirelessly transferring images in the background to your mobile device while you carry on shooting and even FTPing them into the cloud using the phone's internet connection. It also supports scripts to do all manner of custom functions and means you aren't relying on going into the menu of the camera and doing the often masonic rituals of setting up transfers. Of course for cameras like the Sigma fp which doesn't have any wifi link, it also provides them with that functionality. If thats not enough, it also has probably the most bizarre advert you've ever seen for an SD card.

For a two line post about the possible, albeit impressive, spec of the EVF of an as yet unannounced camera, the sheer quantity and absolute earnestness of the comments that have been generated underneath it is mind blowing. People are fucking insane.

Just a note that I managed to get hold of the BTA-1 bluetooth adapter and it works well with the app. It could be cheaper but its very good for monitoring levels and general hands off control of the H3-VR. I don't have anything else that uses the UltraSync BLUE timecode system so can't comment on that aspect of it.

Fujifilm have certainly brought the goods with this new firmware update even outside of the ProResRAW feature and I'm quite intrigued by the grain effect . https://fujifilm-x.com/es-es/support/download/firmware/cameras/gfx100/ I'm guessing that @Andrew Reid is currently exiting some shop somewhere with a Ninja V under his arm to give this a go ! Although, as with the update announced for the Sigma fp, I do wonder when Atomos will actually release their firmware to allow this to be used.

Not exactly the same thing but a shoutout to the lesser spotted CR-41 remote for the fp which lets you do remote shutter/start/stop through the mic input port whilst still letting you plug a mic in as well. Its very useful for handheld stuff in RAW particularly as you aren't wasting card space with that second or so of the camera settling after you press the record button.

I hope their pizzas don't come out as half baked as their camera did.